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" In the nature of cities : "
edited by Nik Heynen, Maria Kaika, and Erik Swyngedouw.
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990822
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b745192
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In the nature of cities : : urban political ecology and the politics of urban metabolism /\ edited by Nik Heynen, Maria Kaika, and Erik Swyngedouw.
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 2006.
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Questioning cities series
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xv, 271 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 24 cm.
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0415368278
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: 0415368286
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: 9780415368278
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: 9780415368278
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: 9780415368285
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Urban political ecology : politicizing the production of urban natures / Nik Heynen, Maria Kaika, and Erik Swyngedouw -- Metabolic urbanization : the making of cyborg cites / Erik Swyngedouw -- Metropolitics and metabolics : rolling out environmentalism in Toronto -- Roger Keil and Julie-Anne Boudreau -- Urban nature and the ecological imaginary / Matthew Gandy -- Nature's carnival : the ecology of pleasure at Coney Island / Eliza Darling -- The desire to metabolize nature : Edward Loveden Loveden, William Vanderstegen, and the disciplining of the river Thames / Stuart Oliver -- Turfgrass subjects : the political economy of urban monoculture / Paul Robbins and Julie Sharp -- Justice of eating in the city : the political ecology of urban hunger / Nik Heynen -- Metabolism of obe-city : flows of fat through bodies, cities and sewers / Simon Marvin and Will Medd -- The political ecology of water scarcity : the 1989-1991 Athenian drought / Maria Kaika -- The metabolic processes of capital accumulation in Durban's waterscape / Alex Loftus -- The public/private conundrum of urban water : a view from South Africa / Laila Smith and Greg Ruiters -- Inherited fragmentations and naratives of environmental control in entrepreneurial Philadelphia / Alec Brownlow -- Transnational alliances and global politics : new geographies of urban environmental justice struggles / David N. Pellow -- Urban metabolism as target : contemporary war as forced demodernization / Stephen Graham.
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Includes urban case studies and contributions from prominent urban scholars, this volume will give students, scholars and researchers of geographical, environmental and urban studies a better understanding of how interrelated, everyday economic, political and cultural processes form and transform urban environments.
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Political ecology.
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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Ecology.
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Politics.
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Sociology.
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Urban areas.
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Political ecology.
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Political ecology.
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Politische Ökologie
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Stadtökologie
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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Milieuverandering.
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Politieke aspecten.
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Stedelijke ontwikkeling.
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| Dewey Classification
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307.76
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HT241.U727 2006
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| Added Entry
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Heynen, Nik,1973-
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Kaika, Maria.
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Swyngedouw, E., (Erik)
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